Healthcare

Tune: Glory, Glory
Oh, listen to the pussy-footing ’round and round the block
hinting here and hinting there this privatizing talk
At universal medicare they’re starting now to balk
It’s now full speed ahead.
Get sick, you’ll make somebody richer (x3)
It’s for-profit healthcare now!!
Two-level medicine is great if you’re on top
Too bad if all the rest will have to wait until they drop.
Medicine’s a business that’ll never have to flop
And it’s now full speed ahead!!
The sicker we get, the richer we will make them...

Tune: Trapeze
We don’t get sick
Cause we know if we do
They’ll be no places
For us in the queue
And if we are fitted with hips that are new
We’ll be breaking them in all alone!
‘cause…
The feds don’t give money
For sick people now-
The province is cutting
The system —and how!!
Our health care foundations they’re hacking at now!!
And we can’t get sick anymore! …oh….
We don’t get sick
‘cause we know if we do
They’ll be no places
For us in the queue
Everything’s changing, now here is...

Tune: Daisy, Daisy
Put them back, those dollars you took away!
From our health care – do it without delay!
Canadians know what matters
Our health care is in tatters
We feel the lack, we want it back!
Low taxes won’t make our day!!
We pay tax for governments to proceed
Taxes pay for services that we need!
A tax cut may sound so splendid
No problem how to spend it!!
But for medicare the cupboard’s bare,
Is that anyway to lead??
Politicians, give back our medicare
It’s the best thing Canadians get to share!!
Just tackle the two tier question,
It gives...

Tune: Clementine
Give them access, give them medicines
We have passed that Bill before
But Big Pharma won’t make money
And that makes them really sore.
Well, Big Pharma, let us tell you
That no money comes from stone
When you’re sick and when you’re poor, then
You depend on friends alone.
C’mon, pass C-398 and
Cut the tape and clear the way
Send the meds to those who need them
Get them moving right...

Tune: Battle Hymn
Get sick in other countries and you cannot get the meds
Even though they’ve made the right arrangements with the Feds
The bill was passed and everything received the proper creds
But we all know this rhyme –
Get sick you’ll make Big Pharma richer (x3)
And we think that’s a crime.
So here we go again with yet another Bill to fix
a problem that has been around since umpteen 96,
Can we unwind and then untie red tape that really sticks
And all that’s taking time.
Get sick you’ll make Big Pharma richer (x3)
And we don’t spend a...

Tune: My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean
All praise to the African Grandma
Her daughters are dying of AIDS
Her HIV sons will not be there
Her hope for the future now fades.
Grandma, Grandma
We salute you, the road is hard
Grandma, Grandma
Our model for standing on guard.
There’s nobody else to rely on
But African Grandmas are strong
They don’t have a shoulder to cry on
But for little ones they’ll carry on.
Grandkids, Grandkids
Your Grandma will be there to give you care
Grandkids, Grandkids
Fear not, your Grandma is...